Along for the Ride

By Brian Childs, from the Brooklyn Rail
When Charles Denson walked into the Thor Equities town hall development meeting at United Community Baptist Church, everyone wanted to shake his hand and get his opinion of Thor’s latest announcements and of the developer Joe Sitt—even Joe Sitt himself.

“Is Charlie back?” Sitt asked the crowd from his position onstage. “Charlie said in the paper that I had the opportunity here to be the hero. Well Charlie, that’s the only way I want to do this.”

Charlie remains skeptical.

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Some Amazing Coney Island Photos

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Spoon Gets Panned By Coney Island Carny

During their big night out with the New York Times, band du jourSpoon went to Coney Island. It was a mistake. They should have gone somewhere where the carny barkers aren't so musically savvy.

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Finding his fiddle was $80G riddle

An interesting article in the Daily News.

BY ALISON FOX and JONATHAN LEMIRE
DAILY NEWS WRITERS

Thursday, July 5th 2007, 4:00 AM

A concert violinist who snoozed and lost his rare $80,000 violin in a Brooklyn subway station is making beautiful music again, now that his prized instrument has been returned.

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Hot Dog Eating World Record- Joey Chestnut

Hot Dog Battle at Coney Island.

The Call of the Wild Ride

There's a really good article about Coney Island today in the Times by (not surprisingly) Mark Caldwell. Caldwell is one of the few reporters, along with Neil deMause of the Village Voice, Rich Calder of the Post and I would like to think myself, covering Coney Island who has really taken the time to show some of the depth of the issue. On a related note, the little known Brooklyn Eagle probably has the best coverage overall, and Gowanus and especially Kinetic Carnival do a knockout job in the blogosphere, not that anyone cares about my opinion.

Make sure you watch the video, it does a good job of letting Carol Albert of Astroland and Dennis Vourderis of Deno's Wonder Wheel express their opinions of the developments for more than ten seconds.

By MARK CALDWELL
Published: July 1, 2007

LEVIK, an 8-year-old on the loose at Coney Island, was ecstatic. He had come to the amusement park this late spring day with his classmates at the Lubavitcher Oholei Torah school in Crown Heights, which had rented Deno’s Wonder Wheel Park for the morning.

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